Creating a single airspace for EAC reads like rocket science
While air passenger traffic to East Africa has grown over tenfold since EAA folded 44 years ago, it is hard to find a financially viable national carrier in the region. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail, so the old adage goes. And in its six decades of independence, Africa has failed to prepare its transport systems so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the continent is a graveyard of failed transport projects.
With the exception of Ethiopian Airlines, it is hard to find a national airline whose story is not a chronicle of incompetence and corruption. The railways are a similar story of vultures’ feasts. And roads are the chapter Africa is contributing to “The Mafia’s Textbook for Stealing a Loan Before the Borrower Sees It”.
